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by adam-a 14y ago
That was completely unnerving. Without even realising I had done it I completely skipped over the block of text to the TL;DR and only after did I realise it was just Lorem Ipsum nonsense. I totally agree with TL;DR usage, it's a modern devi
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by adam-a 14y ago
The need for a Google account is definitely the biggest concern of mine. In terms of supporting and promoting OSS though I think it is a better direction that Windows ever took. The major pieces, Linux and Chrome are both open, if the user
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Hard Problems In Game Development(plus.google.com)
5 points by adam-a 14y ago|0 comments
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by adam-a 14y ago
> China tends to be a fast copier, not a leader. What a huge generalisation. This appears to be true in the consumer electronics world perhaps, but look outside of that and it's harder to justify. For example, China has been building a
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by adam-a 14y ago
Ouya has a much lower barrier to entry than Steam, which is none. Anyone can publish a game to the Ouya market (at least that's my understanding) but for an indie developer, getting a game on steam can be quite difficult. See the recently l
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by adam-a 14y ago
This stuff is getting solved, for the particular example you can use n-th child in modern browsers[0]. [0] http://www.quirksmode.org/css/nthchild.html
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by adam-a 14y ago
The Lukas Canade optical flow demo is really cool [0]. Stick blobs to your face and they track around in the same spot. [0] http://inspirit.github.com/jsfeat/sample_oflow_lk.html
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by adam-a 14y ago
Yes, you're right. I know that that was the behaviour at some point in the past on OSX. But I tried just now on Windows, FF Nightly and saw nothing. Could be a change in FF, difference in os's, or something in the library. Not a very helpfu
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by adam-a 14y ago
The FF window.navigator.onLine event fires when you click the "Work offline" option in the menu, at least I think it used to. Just tried that and it didn't work either. I have been looking for a X-browser way to do this myself and the best
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by adam-a 14y ago
> There's also the rather-disturbing phenomenon of a small percentage of people spending an outlandish amount of money on these games. Sure, some of them might be enthusiastic fans, but that seems unlikely to me. Free-to-play games are
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by adam-a 14y ago
I don't know if you're being sarcastic but Heinz have been selling ketchup in upside down bottles for years now. http://blog.infotrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Heinz_...
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by adam-a 14y ago
Oh my, I'd almost forgotten about all the gold. Lot's of excessive shimmering too. It's clearly a technically very impressive desktop environment, but I always thought they needed better design for the actual themes.
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by adam-a 14y ago
Skeumorphic features are defined by the fact that they are unnecessary carry-overs from older or different objects. They can be useful and style choices too, but a digital button does not need to indicate depth, whereas a mechanical button
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by adam-a 14y ago
The PCWorld website seems to suggest £199.97 [0]. Perhaps that is without VAT though. [0] http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/chromebook-1460-commercial.htm... Edit: The pictured models at the bottom of the page start at £250 but the copy at th
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by adam-a 14y ago
There are also two types of writing. Writing to convey a point and writing poetically. This is supposed to be advice so it would suit it more to be understandable rather than beautiful. Having said that I assumed she was making a joke in th
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by adam-a 14y ago
> Don’t open links in new browser tabs > Tabbed browsing is for advanced users. If you open a page in a new tab, most users will get lost This is the default behaviour for Twitter and Facebook, two of the biggest sites on the net. I
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by adam-a 14y ago
That Valve are working on a Steambox at all is pure speculation, it seems a bit of a jump to assume this all in service of a rumor. I think it's more likely Valve have been paying attention to stuff like the Humble Indie Bundle guys drawing
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The World's First Intelligent, Wearable Camera(autographer.com)
2 points by adam-a 14y ago|1 comments
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by adam-a 14y ago
I would also like an invite. If they are being given.
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by adam-a 14y ago
Sounds a bit like ZFS snapshots[1]. I always wished that would catch on a bit more, seems like it would be very useful. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Snapshots_and_clones
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by adam-a 14y ago
I work in central London and see a lot of people riding about on these bikes, clearly very expensive ones often too. This is a part of town where it's impossible to park, the traffic is terrible, and you have to pay[1] to drive there at all
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by adam-a 14y ago
I ran into this a while ago reading something on my phone which wasn't logged in. I think it is only certain answers though. It's funny that Stack Overflow was created explicitly to provide an open access QA site, an alternative to Experts
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by adam-a 14y ago
Wow! I had no idea there were so many extensions available already. I had kind of assumed Gnome 3 was so young that none were available yet. They definitely should publicise these more.
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by adam-a 14y ago
As a UK based programmer I've had 3 jobs since leaving University. Out of those, 2 I recall asked to see proof of my degree (photo copy of my graduation certificate). The other I can't remember but I think they did too. This is probably bec
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by adam-a 14y ago
>> That is why kinect was so promising Perhaps it was promising, but it is fairly terrible in practice. Except for a few dance and fitness games. The thing about traditional controllers is they are both precise and abstracted. Butto
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by adam-a 14y ago
This looks pretty cool, Perlin noise is used all over the place in procedural content generation. I recall Minecraft's terrain is generated using it. I have no idea why the author didn't include a usable demo though. It would be nice to try
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by adam-a 14y ago
This is the thing a lot of people don't realise. If you record a 12 hour day, when do you have time to watch it back or publish it? It kind of reminds me of the guy who wrote down every thought he had for 3 months http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h
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by adam-a 14y ago
Well the device I have only takes still pictures and no audio. So it's not quite as invasive. (For the curious it's a Vicon Revue - http://www.viconrevue.com/home.html ) Initially some people joke about making sure to get their good side o
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by adam-a 14y ago
I have to say it's a view that few people share. I have worn a lifelogging device in public a number of times and the amount of people who have a problem with the privacy aspect is approximately 1 in 50 or so. Admittedly this is among peopl
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by adam-a 14y ago
I used this (on an admittedly unfinished and more or less abandoned project) https://github.com/adam-a/Simple-Sampler/blob/master/build/M... I never found a good way to silo the .o and .d files though, the way I do it is put the main make

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